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Mindanao Week of
P E A C E
Mindanao Week of
Peace (MWOP) is an annual celebration that has the intent of advocating
peace in the island of Mindanao. The vision of MWOP is to promote the culture
of peace as an “authentic lived
experience, a way of life, and a spirituality that traverses religious and
cultural boundaries.”
Along with this
event, the annual Mindanao Week of Peace (MWOP) celebration brings forth the
hopes and aspirations of the Mindanao people, with the belief that peace is
possible to achieve, along with achieving progress and development in this
region of the Philippines as well. (Alcantara, 2013)
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From the very
beginning, our Week of Peace has been a celebration of our peoples’ diversity
in terms of ethnic origin, religious faith, political affinity, and economic
standing. With the Week of Peace, we have harnessed this diversity to serve as
our source of multi-cultural and inter-religious strength to build a community
of peace, harmony and security. With the Week of Peace, we seize the day of
peace from the slippery hands of our establishment leaders. With the Week of Peace, we build a culture of
peace wherein as many-scaled fishes we swim as school to the deepest depths of
our existential meaning, as many colored birds we fly in formation to the
highest point of our shared spirituality, or as innumerable stars we twinkle
round God’s firmament.
In Mindanao particularly in the region of Davao City, different
colleges and universities participated in the said event, and Ateneo de Davao University
is one of them. As Ateneo de Davao University celebrate the Mindanao Week of
Peace, different ministries, departments, and formation groups took part and
collaborated together in order to make the big event a triumph and a
celebration to be remembered. (cweb2.addu.edu.ph/, 2013)
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Peace is our birthright
from our common God and
Father,
by whose culture and advocacies we equip
ourselves
to heal our primordial
brokenness
marked by violence.
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How
did these activities promote/change our culture of peace?
With these
Mindanao Week of Peace celebrating in our university, we interfaith a framework
with “SOLIDARITY”. Solidarity, to promote and enjoy the fruits of integrity in
the form of good governance in our school and in our fellow Ateneans. With
these activity, we can also promote ethical and moral conduct.
By solidarity,
we promote and enjoy the fruits of justice by the delivery of social services
and the demands of human rights, of all-inclusive socio-economic development.
By solidarity, we support and enjoy the fruits of the Mindanao peace process at
its grassroots to its highest social as well as legal levels.
As an Atenean, these
imperatives set our tasks and challenges now and ahead. We start with
interpersonal and interfaith respect, understanding and reconciliation. All
this is the hope and wisdom of the Week of Peace. And with peace as God’s
grace, all things are possible.
References:
Mindanao
Week of Peace is Launched Today – The Arrupe Office of Social Formation. (2014,
November 26).fromhttp://arrupe.addu.edu.ph/2014/11/26/mindanao-week-peace-launched-today/
http://arrupe.addu.edu.ph/2014/11/26/mindanao-week-peace-launched-today/
